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Potomac Behavioral Solutions has positions available in the areas described below. Please send a letter of interest and a CV via email to Rebecca Hardin, PsyD at RHardin@pbshealthcare.com.
Now accepting applications for 2019-2020 Internship Year!
We are currently in the process of accepting application to complete our self-study as required to become an APPIC member. As of 1/7/2019, we are members of the National Matching Services and Program. Program brochure and information coming soon!
Requirements: LCSW's will conduct individual, group, family, and group/skills classes. Applicants should have ample experience treating eating, anxiety/OCD, mood, and personality disorders (specifically Borderline Personality Disorder). The position is ideal for applicants with intermediate to advanced knowledge of CBT, exposure-based techniques, and DBT used int he treatment of anxiety, eating, and personality disorders. Applicants would have demonstrated experience being part of an adherent DBT treatment team which includes individual therapy, skills class, phone coaching, and consultation teams. Please identify your ability to work with child, adolescent, or adult populations.
Requirements: Psychologists will conduct individual, group, family, and group/skills classes. Applicants should have ample experience treating eating, anxiety/OCD, mood, and personality disorders (specifically Borderline Personality Disorder). The position is ideal for applicants with intermediate to advanced knowledge of CBT, exposure-based techniques, and DBT used int he treatment of anxiety, eating, and personality disorders. Applicants would have demonstrated experience being part of an adherent DBT treatment team which includes individual therapy, skills class, phone coaching, and consultation teams. Ph.D. or Psy.D. from an APA-accredited program in clinical psychology. Please identify your ability to work with child, adolescent, or adult populations.
Requirements: Provides a full range of psychiatric services to adolescent and adult outpatient behavioral health patients predominately diagnosed with eating and anxiety disorders. Completes initial assessment and evaluation of patients and provides ongoing monitoring of patient's behavioral health/medical condition(s) and provides treatment. Orders prescription medications and diagnostic procedures as needed. Creates a plan of care tailored to the individual which may include a medication prescription with follow up appointments and/or a referral to one of our mental health or dietary staff/programs. Responsible to provide psychiatric services as required and within the standards of professional psychiatric and medical care. Provides clinical consultation to multidisciplinary team. Responsible to attend multidisciplinary meeting with staff. Psychiatrist will report to the Clinical Director. Completion of an appropriate residency program required. Completion of Medical Doctorate required. Must hold current, active license to practice medicine in Virginia.
Requirements: Postdoctoral Fellows will conduct individual, group, family, and group/skills classes. Applicants should have ample experience treating eating, anxiety/OCD, mood, and personality disorders (specifically Borderline Personality Disorder). The position is ideal for applicants with intermediate to advanced knowledge of CBT, exposure-based techniques, and DBT used int he treatment of anxiety, eating, and personality disorders. Applicants would have demonstrated experience being part of an adherent DBT treatment team which includes individual therapy, skills class, phone coaching, and consultation teams. Ph.D. or Psy.D. from an APA-accredited program in clinical psychology. Please identify your ability to work with pediatric, child, adolescent, or adult populations.
Requirements: Predoctoral Graduate Students, Postdoc, or Residents interested in completing clinical and research experiences on a yearly or multi-year basis. Students should be from an APA-accredited program in psychology or medical school.


Based on these century-old events, the Nivelle Nights bonus map has been an intense night experience for Battlefield 1™ Premium Pass and Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass owners since its release. Now, we have an exciting announcement about the map: Nivelle Nights will be made available for all Battlefield 1 players*.
Starting early November, you can tackle the muddy battlefields around Malmaison and Soupir as the French or German army. Make good use of the moon, the searchlights, and the artillery lighting up the dark night skies.
Enjoy the map – and own the night.
The new, epic experiences of Operation Campaigns is just around the corner. You can play Eastern Storm, the first Operation Campaign, starting early November.
Operation Campaigns expand on the frontline clashes between attackers and defenders, stringing together multiple Operations and adding unique rewards to the mix.
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Kurcheh Posht (, also Romanized as Kūrcheh Posht; also known as Gowrjeh Posht, Korjā Posht, Korjā-ye Posht, Korjehposht, and Kvorjeh Posht) is a village in Reza Mahalleh Rural District, in the Central District of Rudsar County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 842, in 233 families.

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Patients who require the help of a breathing machine (mechanical ventilation) for more than a few weeks usually undergo a surgical procedure (tracheotomy) to support breathing through a small hole in the neck rather than through a tube inserted through the mouth or nose. Whether it is better to do a tracheotomy sooner rather than wait a few weeks is not known.
To see if doing a tracheotomy soon after heart surgery was beneficial when other treatment factors were kept the same.
216 adults who still needed a breathing machine 4 days after heart surgery.
Patients were randomly assigned to have an early tracheotomy done in the intensive care unit within 1 day or breathing support continued through a tube already inserted into the mouth for up to 2 weeks, at which time a tracheotomy was considered. The researchers evaluated how long each group remained on the breathing machine and whether there were benefits to 1 approach over the other.
There was no difference between the groups in how long they remained in the intensive care unit or hospital or in how long they lived. There was also no difference seen in how much time the patients were able to remain off the breathing machine. In contrast, less medicine for anxiety or pain was required by the patients who had a tracheotomy done immediately, and these patients' nurses judged them as being more comfortable and easier to care for than the patients who remained initially with a breathing tube in the mouth. Several months later, the 2 groups of patients reported similar memories of their hospitalization and similar quality of life.
The study may have been too small to see a difference between the groups, and it studied only patients who had undergone heart surgery. In addition, because it was not possible to prevent the physicians and nurses from knowing whether the patient had received a tracheotomy, other differences in how these patients were treated or evaluated might have affected the results.
More study is needed to determine whether some patients benefit from having a tracheotomy done sooner rather than later.
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Abrahams, Peter, 1919–2017, South African novelist and journalist, b. Peter Henry Abrahams Deras. Though he lived mostly in exile, he exposed the injustices of the apartheid system and the politics of race in his native land in his works. A Marxist, he edited a Durban socialist magazine before, in 1939, he left for London, where he edited the Communist Daily Worker. There he came to know and be influenced by such black nationalists as Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah and such writers as Richard Wright and James Baldwin . Abrahams first attracted international notice with the novel Mine Boy (1946), a story of a black diamond miner and the mixed-race woman he loves that was the first work to lay bare South Africa's racial injustices. His next novel, The Path of Thunder (1948), in which a black South African returns to his village to start a school, fully established his literary reputation. In 1957 he went to Jamaica to write a history of the island, Jamaica: An Island Mosaic, and he then moved there permanently, working as a magazine editor and radio commentator. His other novels include A Wreath for Udomo (1956), A Night of Their Own (1965), This Island Now (1966), his only one set exclusively in Jamaica, and The View from Coyaba (1985). His early South African stories are collected in Dark Testament (1942); Return to Goli (1953) is his account of a journey to Africa.
See his Tell Freedom (1954), and The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Meditation (2001); biography by P. Wade (1971); studies by K. Ogungbesan (1979) and R. Ensor (1992).
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Veterinarians, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other agencies warn gardeners to be careful what you plant in your backyard, especially if you have children and dogs. Certain plants like digitalis can poison animals or toddlers who chew on leaves or stems by accident. However, purple ice plant is not one of those problem plants.
The purple ice plant is a naturally hardy succulent groundcover native to South Africa. One variety is even called the "Hardy" purple ice plant. A perennial common to warmer climates, the purple ice plant grows 2 to 6 inches tall and grows in a loose mat. The foliage is evergreen and produces dozens of brightly colored magenta-to-purple daisylike flowers in mid- to late summer.
The plant needs good drainage and doesn't require much water, making it very low maintenance. It grows rapidly and spreads quickly. It serves as soil anchors in much of California's hills and coastline. Purple ice plant grows well on hills and banks and in containers. It loves full sun, warm climates like those in the lower Midwest through the Southeast United States.
The ASPCA lists ice plants of almost all varieties as safe for planting around both dogs and cats. The purple ice plant in particular is safe in yards where pets run free.
One variety of ice plant, slender ice plant (Mesembyanthemum nodiflorum) grows almost exclusively in Australia on soils that are poor in areas where sheep-herding is a common industry. Slender ice plant is high in oxalic acid poisonous to sheep. The sheep seek it out, attracted by its high salt content. In time, the sheep develop high oxalic acid levels in their bloodstreams. This interferes with muscle function and may cause paralysis and damage the kidneys. Dogs and cats won't eat enough of the plant to cause problems.


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'Wired' group effort
Bipartisan program touts benefits of healthcare IT
Modern Physician
Medical care would be improved and millions of dollars would be saved if hospitals were fully wired, said Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who jointly announced a program that aims to put more healthcare information online.
Last week, the political partisans put their differences aside to tout electronic prescriptions, online patient records and an integrated, paperless healthcare system.
Gingrich said 98,000 people die annually in hospitals because of medical errors. He suggested information technology could save billions of dollars now wasted on procedures, such as unnecessary tests and redundant record-keeping.
Kennedy and Gingrich made their remarks at Brown University, where they were taking part in a conference about using technology to improve healthcare.
Kennedy plans to introduce legislation that would implement a paperless healthcare system by 2015. The bill seeks $5 billion in funding to build the infrastructure to get all hospitals and patients online.
The pair said better technology would lower healthcare costs in the long run, "and the system ends up paying for itself," Gingrich added.
Gingrich and Kennedy said the Internet helps patients access records more easily and allows doctors to monitor their patients' care more efficiently.
Gingrich and Kennedy said failures in the healthcare system are mostly because of the fragmentation of American healthcare. The system is a patchwork of systems, each having standards, regulations and financial structures that vary widely from state to state and company to company.
Kennedy said having everyone on the same system would make it more transparent and easier to share information. He estimated it would take about three years for individual patient records to get online if his bill is passed.
"The fact is, paper records kill," said Gingrich, a Republican who served as speaker from 1995 until the end of 1998, when he gave up his seat after the GOP's poor showing in the November elections. "And the tragic thing is the deaths are avoidable."


Wholefood vegan diets far exceed expectations!
To be described as low-fat, a food must contain 3g or less total fat per 100g.
More people than ever before are choosing to enjoy a plant-based lifestyle to help their health, animals and the environment.
Public Health England has published new data detailing the state of the nation's diet.
The figures from the latest National Diet and Nutrition Survey were collected from 2014 to 2016.
Public Health England are calling on food manufacturers to cut the calories in their products by 20 per cent by 2024.
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"Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck" is Pure Magic
Like Alice and the rabbit-hole, viewers of director Olympia Stone's "Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination Of David Beck" know they are entering a very different world from the get-go. The film opens with whimsical jazz and a close up of "Movie Palace", an elaborate miniature pretend movie theater that combines the pleasures of the bygone Hollywood regal era with the intricacies of handcrafted windup toys.
"As a child, I loved to go to the movies. I still do," David Beck says as the camera lingers over animated figures talking and eating popcorn made of painted birdshot. "It's almost a little temple, a religious shrine to the movies."
Movie Palace
Beck then takes us on an enchanting tour of this fantastical creation, explaining his inspiration and process. Close ups of reliefs on the outside of the dome show various movie house golden age genres, such as film noir, Westerns and musicals. A tiny man, loaded down with popcorn and drinks, stands in the aisle, searching for his seat. Within minutes, Beck's charm, humility and humor have hooked us.
Director Olympia Stone has a soft touch, following Beck about as he works in his studio. There is no troubling backstory or dramatic agenda; just an absorbing glimpse into the private thoughts and efforts of an enormously talented artist.
If it seems that there is a special connection between director and subject, it's because there is: Stone's father, Allan Stone, was Beck's art dealer for many years, and Beck often visited the Stone home in Purchase, N.Y. Olympia has said Beck stood out as the artist she was most deeply inspired by from the time she was seven years old. Her fascination with the tiny scale of his work never waned, and she undertook "Curious Worlds" to introduce the little known artist to a wider audience.
"David is someone I have known most of my life, and I am honored to say that we have remained and continue to be close friends," she said.
Beck's childlike fascination with, well, everything and his playful sense of humor cannot mask this modern renaissance man's extraordinary gifts for creating unique and powerful miniature sculptures that combine the meticulous craftsmanship and precision of a mechanical engineer with the sometimes wacky worldview of a Tim Burton. He is a unique synthesizer, absorbing that which interests him – Medieval miniatures, European cabinetry, comic books, gothic carving and the art of Joseph Cornell and Joe Marmol – and weaving subtle references into his work.
His works beckon us to come closer and to enter the secret compartments, open the windows, explore inside drawers and assume that nothing is as it seems. Little marvels open to reveal additional, even more miraculous intricacies. Alice's rabbit hole has no bottom.
David Beck in his studio
Watching Beck craft his worlds in miniature is a magical adventure in itself. His highly original, intricate and kinetic artwork combines sculpture, painting, textiles, mechanics and foraging in a way that is part obsessive, part ethereal. His pieces take the form of miniature buildings and entire worlds populated with mystical and whimsical creatures that seem to live in a world all their own. The artist spends hundreds of hours in his oriental rugged workshop, methodically tending to the minutest detail. He learns whatever technique is appropriate for whatever he is trying to build.
Director Olympia Stone
Stone peppers her film with critics, curators, gallerists, collectors and friends who offer insights on Beck's career, style and importance to the art world. When she films Beck in his studio as he shares his inspirations and frustrations, their rapport and trust is palpable.
Dodo Museum
Much of Beck's inspiration springs from nature, but rather than replicate it, Beck creates his own romantic version of it. His "Dodo Museum" is a valentine to the extinct creature, complete with Paleolithic skeleton and Cluny-type tapestries with dodos in place of unicorns. Sharing his sketchbooks from the early 1970's, Beck recalls being completely "obsessed and fascinated by this friendly bird."
A Many Splendored Dodo
Dodo Windup
When pressed to identify her personal favorite among Beck's works, Stone reluctantly names the large Dodo sculpture that is on screen for a few seconds in the film. Its wings open, revealing a diorama of a tiny dodo paradise. "As a child, I used to love looking inside those wings – it just transported me into a magical world. But honestly, there are so many things I love – it's impossible to choose just one," she said.
Beck was born in Muncie, Indiana in 1953 and studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1976. That year, he moved to New York City and had his first exhibit at the Allan Stone Gallery. Scenes of Beck reminiscing with friends from those early "starving artist" days are among the film's most intimate moments.
Allan Stone and David Beck in the late 1970's.
Just when we think that Beck has to be the coolest, most talented person we've ever encountered, he gets even cooler with the introduction of the jazz improvisation group, "The Melancholics", and his role as composer and baritone saxophonist. Beck first met bassist Bill Noertker in the late 1990s, and the two developed a collaborative relationship, with Noertker scoring a short film Beck made of seven of his sculptures. Because of their longstanding relationship, Stone asked him to score her film.
"I love the music in the film. Bill Noertker has a long history of composing music for David's pieces – you can see/hear more of their collaboration on David's website (davidbeckartworks.com). Bill "gets" David's artwork," Stone said. Noertker composed a few pieces specifically for the film, but many were from his band, Moxie (http://www.noertker.com/).
By the end of the film, we are not surprised to learn that Beck is the only living artist to have had three solo exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, nor that his work is sought by private collectors across the country. The only thing that does surprise us is that we have never heard of this quirky, friendly, enormously talented man who creates these wonderful and enchanting microcosms, and for that we owe Olympia Stone a huge thank you.
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Tagged Curious Worlds, David Beck, Dodo Museum, Movie Palace, Olympia STone
Come to Salem, see the world.
Salem Film Fest founders celebrate film and filmmakers
What do local filmmaker, Joe Cultrera, businessman, Paul Van Ness, and Salem Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Rinus Oosthoek have in common?
The answer goes back to 2007, when the three founded Salem Film Fest (SFF), the week-long festival that sustains cinephiles each March through the long, bleak slog of New England winter. The largest all-documentary film festival in New England, SFF 2016 will run March 3-10.
It all started in 2006, when Van Ness opened CinemaSalem. He has run Van Ness Creative, a film/video production company in Beverly for 30 years, and has always been interested in filmmaking. "That is what made running the movie theater interesting to me," he said. (His 2012 documentary feature, "A Good Death", won Best Documentary at the California Oceanside Film Festival.)
Rinus Oosthoek (left) and Paul Van Ness with Salem Film Fest programs and posters.
Oosthoek, who met Van Ness in 2003 when he worked with Beverly Main Streets, was one of the first to approach him with the suggestion of putting together a film festival. Van Ness was receptive. "The idea of a festival was part of what can make a cinema successful," he said. Plus, he wanted the opportunity to bring some movies to Salem that could literally not be seen anyplace else in the world, which "helps the cinema and the local culture."
Cultrera, a documentary filmmaker who shifts between his own productions and freelance editing work, met Van Ness when CinemaSalem hosted the New England Premiere of his film, "Hand of God", prior to its acquisition by FRONTLINE, the PBS documentary series. He heard Van Ness and some other folks from Salem were interested in starting a film festival and he agreed to meet with them.
"I'd just come off the festival circuit [with "Hand of God"] and had some strong opinions," he said. One of them was that SFF should be an all-documentary film fest, which Van Ness described as a "brilliant move" both because it meant SFF would be competing with fewer festivals to attract films and because documentaries are intrinsically more interesting. "You can experience the human family all over the world in a 90-minute film and you know it's completely true," he added.
Also, Cultrera pointed out, there were no other significant documentary film festivals in Massachusetts in 2006, so the group had the opportunity to build something unique.
With the three basics in place — venue (through Van Ness), business community involvement (through Oosthoek) and industry and programming connections (through Cultrera) —Salem Film Fest was born in 2007. "That's about as fast as a festival can be put together once you have a venue," Van Ness said.
The first year was more successful than anticipated, owing in part, according to Van Ness, to the fact that Cultrera, as Program Director, insisted on screening only very high quality films that were not simply advocacy pieces for the director's point of view. "We've always looked for good storytelling, strong technical aspects, compelling characters and inventive techniques. We want films that present both sides of a story, particularly if it's a political story," Cultrera said.
As an "invitation only" festival, the Screening Committee invites filmmakers to submit their films for consideration. Jeff Schmidt, who took over as Program Director in 2013, started searching for films last June. For 2016, the committee invited about 200 filmmakers to submit their work for consideration and collectively considered over 150 films. After a democratic process where members discussed and then voted on each film, the committee selected this year's line-up of 35 feature documentaries representing 25 countries.
From the get-go, SFF distinguished itself as unique in its focus on the filmmaker. "To us, the filmmakers are the heroes in the industry. They come up with the story," Van Ness said.
"We get over half the filmmakers to come to Salem, which is another thing that makes this festival so special," said Oosthoek, noting that this tradition developed accidentally the first year, when most of the filmmakers who attended were local. This year, over two-thirds of the filmmakers will attend, thanks to SFF volunteers who help with traveling logistics and business sponsors' donations.
Post-screening Q&A sessions make the festival experience richer for filmgoers and filmmakers alike. Van Ness notes that a filmmaker whose film is both good and topical may be invited to 20 festivals. "What people say is that the Q&A afterwards tends to be the same except in Salem, where the sophistication of the audience leads the questions in much more interesting directions than you typically hear," he said.
Since 2007, SFF has grown from the "little festival that can" in Salem to a major regional documentary festival. Oosthoek points to three reasons why, first and most important being the quality of the films. "There is a 'Salem identity'. The filmmakers love coming here," he said. The festival's reputation has grown beyond the North Shore, attracting fans from Newburyport, Gloucester, Ipswich and as far away as South Carolina and Minnesota.
Second is the educational component, including partnerships with local high schools, colleges and universities, and the opportunity for student and local filmmakers to showcase their documentary short and experimental films in festival programming such as the Five-Minute Student Documentary Contest and the Mass Reality Check. Also, a selected group of local documentarians receive project assistance when they present their in-progress works to industry representatives at the Doc-a-chusetts Pitch session, with the winner receiving a $5,000 production grant for finishing services provided by The OutPost at WGBH.
Last but hardly least, Oosthoek credits the local business community for its commitment and involvement. "They understand it's good for their regional market," he said. Where most festivals charge filmmakers a non-refundable fee to submit their work (with no guarantee of acceptance), SFF actually offers every filmmaker a screening fee, free lodging and, in some cases, a travel stipend thanks to local and regional community sponsors and supporters.
Over the years, SFF has also strengthened and expanded its relationship with the Peabody Essex Museum, adding more screenings and connected programming there. "This has really brought an extra dimension to the event and allowed us to show more work," Cultrera said. Another SFF venue, the Salem National Park Service Visitor Center, will host four screenings this year.
In addition to its liaison with broadcasters like FRONTLINE, SFF has tried to "add new wrinkles each year to keep things fresh," Cultrera noted, adding that having live music on stage between films is a good way to add a little life to the moments before a screening and expose the audience to local musicians. Another "wrinkle" is "Salem Sketches", a handful of locally shot two-minute documentaries Cultrera creates with fellow filmmaker Perry Hallinan. "We're one of the few festivals that can claim to have our own original programming," Cultrera said.
"Come to Salem, see the world" has been the SFF catch phrase since its inception, both as an homage to the old Salem merchant ships that established trade with the rest of the world and in tribute to the films from dozens of countries the festival has screened over the past nine years. "The festival's strength has always been its programming and community feel, but the scope of our programming reaches far beyond the local," Cultrera said.
For more information, visit salemfilmfest.com
Posted in Feature, Film Review, News, Salem
Tagged Cultrera, Salem, SalemFilmFest, Van Ness


Nikola Mirotic (fractured/sprained left thumb) will play in Game 1 against the Pistons on Sunday but will be very limited.
Mirotic probably won't play double-digit minutes unless the Bucks desperately need it. It's good to see him start to get eased back in, and he might be fully back by the time the second round starts.


The Gathering Place is where you want to stay!
The " The Gathering Place" of this home is the open kitchen, dining and living area. This inviting space is where family and friends can visit and watch the game on TV. The kitchen is fully furnished with everything a guest might need to whip up game-day snacks or a home-cooked meal for the college student.
Set the kids at the marble bar and let the adults enjoy the dining table while still being able to watch TV. High speed internet and cable television are provided not to mention the extra movie packages offered for when the game isn't on.
Grill on the patio off the kitchen while enjoying the backyard. You might even want to enjoy a cup of coffee on the covered patio. You can even keep an eye on the game through the large windows in the living room.
The tastefully decorated 4 bedrooms feature large closets and windows to let the sunshine in. The master suite has a comfortable queen bed. The first guest bedroom has a full bed with a twin trundle underneath. The second guest bedroom has a bunk room with two sets of bunk beds and the last guest room as an additional queen bed. There is also a blow up mattress for guest overflow!
The laundry area is off the garage and close to the front door so soiled uniforms from the sports tournaments can be taken off and put in the washing machine before entering the home.
The Gathering Place is also approximately 6 miles to Kyle field and Reed Arena so a perfect spot to stay out of game day traffic and enjoy some peace and quiet!


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IS SEED A REMAKE OF THE 2006 MMO, SEED?
We've noticed online, especially via MMORPG, that there's some speculation to whether our project is a remake of, or related to, Runestone Game Development's 2006 MMOSEED. With this post, we wanted to clear up any confusion that may be circulating about this topic.
In a nutshell, other than the name, there's actually no connection to the 2006 game. To be honest, we weren't aware of the 2006 SEED until we read theories online regarding the possible connection between the projects.
Our project is separate in many ways, for example, combat will be an integral part of the game. Although, it's understandable that this connection was made as there are many similarities, such as human colonization, character interaction, and politics.
Seed, as a name, is the perfect description of what this project is all about, and what we're trying to achieve – planting new life, new ideas, and growing communities.
At this point, we'd like to say we have the utmost respect for Runestone Game Development, and for the studio pushing the MMO genre forward over a decade ago.
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1. Chapter 4THE INCOME STATEMENT AND STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS Sommers � ACCT 3311 Chapter 1: Environment and Theoretical Structure of Financial Accounting.Chapter 1: Environment and Theoretical Structure of Financial Accounting.
2. In General The purpose of the income statement is to summarize the profit-generating activities that occurred during a particular period. The purpose of the statement of cash flows is to provide information about the cash receipts and cash disbursements of a firm that occurred during a period. Different information (sometimes complements, sometimes substitutes) therefore different audiences/uses.
3. Discussion Questions Q4�1 The income statement is a change statement. Explain what is meant by this.
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5. Discussion Questions Q4�3 Distinguish between operating and nonoperating income in relation to the income statement.
6. Operating Versus Nonoperating Income A distinction is often made between operating and nonoperating income. Operating income includes revenues and expenses directly related to the principal revenue-generating activities of the company. Nonoperating income is reported separately in the income statement and includes gains and losses and revenues and expenses related to peripheral or incidental activities of the company. For example, income from investments, gains and losses from the sale of operating assets and from investments, interest and dividend revenue, and interest expense are included in nonoperating income. A distinction is often made between operating and nonoperating income. Operating income includes revenues and expenses directly related to the principal revenue-generating activities of the company. Nonoperating income is reported separately in the income statement and includes gains and losses and revenues and expenses related to peripheral or incidental activities of the company. For example, income from investments, gains and losses from the sale of operating assets and from investments, interest and dividend revenue, and interest expense are included in nonoperating income.
7. Discussion Questions Q4�5 Explain what is meant by the term earnings quality. Transitory versus Permanent Earnings
8. Earnings Quality � Operating/Nonoperating Operating Income Restructuring Costs � Costs associated with shutdown or relocation of facilities or downsizing of operations are recognized in the period incurred. Goodwill Impairment and Long-lived Asset Impairment - Involves asset impairment losses or charges. Nonoperating Income Gains and losses from the sale of operational assets and investments - Often can significantly inflate or deflate current earnings. Most of the components of earnings in an income statement relate directly to the ordinary, continuing operations of the company. Some, though, such as interest and gains and losses are only tangentially related to normal operations. These we refer to as nonoperating items. Some nonoperating items have generated considerable discussion with respect to earnings quality, notably gains and losses generated either from the sale of operational assets or from the sale of investments.Most of the components of earnings in an income statement relate directly to the ordinary, continuing operations of the company. Some, though, such as interest and gains and losses are only tangentially related to normal operations. These we refer to as nonoperating items. Some nonoperating items have generated considerable discussion with respect to earnings quality, notably gains and losses generated either from the sale of operational assets or from the sale of investments.
9. Discussion Questions Q4�10 How should extraordinary gains and losses be reported in the income statement? Unusual in nature Infrequent in occurrence
10. Intraperiod Income Tax Allocation Intraperiod tax allocation associates (or allocates) income tax expense (or income tax benefits if there is a loss) with each major component of income that causes it. As a result, the two items reported separately below income from continuing operations are presented net of the related income tax effect. Intraperiod tax allocation associates (or allocates) income tax expense (or income tax benefits if there is a loss) with each major component of income that causes it. As a result, the two items reported separately below income from continuing operations are presented net of the related income tax effect.
11. Income Statement Classifications
12. Separately Reported Items Income from continuing operations before income taxes and extraordinary items	$ xxx Income tax expense	xx Income from continuing operations before extraordinary items	xxx Discontinued operations (net of $xx in taxes)	xx Extraordinary items (net of $xx in taxes)	xx Net Income	$ xxx Generally accepted accounting principles require that certain transactions be reported separately in the income statement, below income from continuing operations. There are two types of events that, if material, require separate reporting and disclosure: (1) discontinued operations and (2) extraordinary items. In fact, these are the only two events that are allowed to be reported below continuing operations. The presentation order is also dictated as shown on the slide. The objective is to separately report all the income effects of each of these items. Generally accepted accounting principles require that certain transactions be reported separately in the income statement, below income from continuing operations. There are two types of events that, if material, require separate reporting and disclosure: (1) discontinued operations and (2) extraordinary items. In fact, these are the only two events that are allowed to be reported below continuing operations. The presentation order is also dictated as shown on the slide. The objective is to separately report all the income effects of each of these items.
13. Discussion Questions Q4�20 Identify any differences between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the number of possible separately reported items that could appear in income statements.
14. Earnings Per Share Disclosure Part I One of the most widely used ratios is earnings per share, which shows the amount of income earned by a company expressed on a per share basis. Companies report both basic and diluted earnings per share. Part II Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Part III Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential for dilution that could occur for companies that have certain securities outstanding that are convertible into common shares or stock options that could create additional common shares if the options were exercised Part I One of the most widely used ratios is earnings per share, which shows the amount of income earned by a company expressed on a per share basis. Companies report both basic and diluted earnings per share. Part II Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Part III Diluted earnings per share reflects the potential for dilution that could occur for companies that have certain securities outstanding that are convertible into common shares or stock options that could create additional common shares if the options were exercised
15. Comprehensive Income An expanded version of income that includes four types of gains and losses that traditionally have not been included in income statements. Net unrealized holding gains (losses) from investments (net of tax). Gains and losses due to reviewing assumptions or market returns differing from expectations and prior service cost from amending the postretirement benefit plan. When a derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge is adjusted to fair value, the gain or loss is deferred as a component of comprehensive income and included in earnings later, at the same time as earnings are affected by the hedged transaction. Gains or losses from changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The amount could be an addition to or reduction in shareholders� equity. Comprehensive income is the total change in equity for a reporting period other than from transactions with owners. Comprehensive income includes net income as well as other gains and losses that change shareholders� equity but are not included in traditional net income.Comprehensive income is the total change in equity for a reporting period other than from transactions with owners. Comprehensive income includes net income as well as other gains and losses that change shareholders� equity but are not included in traditional net income.
16. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income In addition to reporting comprehensive income that occurs in the current period, we must also report these amounts on a cumulative basis in the balance sheet as an additional component of shareholders� equity. In this example, Jabil Circuits Inc. reports Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income of $171 million and $110 million for years 2007 and 2006, respectively. In addition to reporting comprehensive income that occurs in the current period, we must also report these amounts on a cumulative basis in the balance sheet as an additional component of shareholders� equity. In this example, Jabil Circuits Inc. reports Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income of $171 million and $110 million for years 2007 and 2006, respectively.
17. P4-6 Rembrandt Paint Company had the following income statement items for the year ended December 31, 2011 ($ in 000s): Net sales	$18,000	Cost of goods sold	$10,500 Interest income	200	Selling & admin expenses	2,500 Interest expense	350	Restructuring costs	800 Extraordinary gain	3,000 In addition, during the year the company completed the disposal of its plastics business and incurred a loss from operations of $1.6 million and a gain on disposal of the component�s assets of $2 million. 500,000 shares of common stock were outstanding throughout 2011. Income tax expense has not yet been accrued. The income tax rate is 30% on all items of income (loss). Required: Prepare a multiple- step income statement for 2011, including EPS disclosures.
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Editorial: Tunnel tolls are a bad deal for Portsmouth
The Virginian-Pilot & Daily Press Editorial Board, The Virginian-Pilot
Folks who live or work in Portsmouth celebrated the start of the new year like the rest of Hampton Roads. But the morning of Jan. 1 offered a reminder that they are treated like second-class citizens of this region.
Tolling at the Midtown and Downtown tunnels increased yet again, meaning that those who live in the city and work elsewhere, or those who travel from Norfolk and other cities to work in Portsmouth, will be asked to pay more to do so.
While the toll relief program has helped, and it was made available to more motorists in October, it is a poor substitute for paying down the estimated $2 billion cost remaining on the tolling contract and removing this escalating burden on Portsmouth as quickly as possible.
The expansion and improvement of the Midtown and Downtown tunnels were a top Hampton Roads transportation priority for years before Gov. Bob McDonnell in December 2011 announced a deal between a private construction company and the Virginia Department of Transportation to see it done.
The agreement to proceed on the $2.1 billion project was unique. It allowed VDOT to retain possession of the tunnels and oversee the work, but gave Elizabeth River Crossings, a consortium of Skanksa Infrastructure Development and the Macquarie Group, responsibility to finance, build and maintain the facilities.
It also gave ERC tolling rights to the tunnels for 58 years. That VDOT, in that agreement, paid $362 million to hold down toll costs was an early indication that the deal might not be great for those using the new and improved tunnels.
Those concerns were given voice at the time by Portsmouth officials, who worried about how low-income daily commuters would pay the tolls and feared the potential harm they would inflict on the city's economic development efforts.
"You're going to create an island here in Portsmouth," then-Mayor Kenny Wright told a Virginian-Pilot columnist in 2011. His comments were prescient.
Subsequent studies on the effects of the tolls concluded that Portsmouth loses millions in annual revenue as a direct result. People are content to find other routes when they can; for those who cannot, however, the cost is substantial.
Virginian-Pilot reporting in 2017 found some commuters facing five-figure bills from ERC because they didn't have E-ZPass transponders, which meant they were paying higher rates to cross the river. A failure to pay one overdue bill led to the debt snowballing. One woman owed $15,000 for a job that paid $11,000 annually.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe pressured ERC to settle those enormous bills, improve its operations and contribute to the toll relief fund, which helps offset costs for Portsmouth residents making $30,000 or less. In October, that program's threshold was raised to $50,000 and opened to residents from other cities.
Those changes have helped, but the tolls will continue to constrain Portsmouth so long as they are in place. While it's true the city has a lot of problems it must address, it is hardly helped by being separated from its neighbors. And it seems especially cruel that a city with one of the highest poverty rates in Virginia would be asked to bear this heavy burden.
In 2021, Portsmouth Mayor Shannon Glover floated the idea of using state or federal funds to pay down the balance of the ERC contract. At the time Virginia boasted a $2 billion budget surplus and expected a $4 billion windfall from the American Rescue Plan Act, but hopes for applying some of that money to the contract fizzled out.
That idea still has merit. Virginia may not be able to write a $2 billion check to terminate this contract, but it must explore all avenues that can reduce this onerous burden on Portsmouth. Residents there could use a break — any break — and addressing the tunnel tolls would be one way to provide it.
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Cruise News Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Cruise Line Releases Latest Construction Photos of Upcoming Ship
Carnival Cruise Line Releases Latest Construction Photos of Upcoming Ship
Carnival Cruise Line has released the very latest construction photos of the Carnival Horizon which is coming in Spring 2018.
The cruise line has posted some new photos of the Carnival Horizon while under construction at the Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera, Italy. It is nice to see how the ship is coming along and how it looks before going into service next year.
Even though the ship looks whole there are still many things which need to be done. Carnival Horizon is a long way off yet with all the interior spaces needing to be built. All kinds of local shipyard workers and contractors are working flat out to get the vessel ready.
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Carnival Horizon will be the sister ship to Carnival Vista which is the largest ship ever built for the cruise line to date. The 26th ship in the fleet will sail her maiden voyage on April 2, 2018, from Barcelona, Spain. The maiden voyage will be the first of four as the new vessel spends a short inaugural season in the Meditteranean.
Cruisers in the United States don't need to worry as Carnival Horizon will sail a 14- day transatlantic voyage where she will arrive in New York on May 23, 2018. The ship will then head towards its new home port in Miami, Florida after sailing a Summer season out the Big Apple on 4-day Bermuda itineraries and 8-day Caribbean itineraries.
Carnival Horizon will finally be based out of PortMiami year round from September 22, 2018. The new ship will sail 6-day and 8-day Caribbean cruises and guests will be able to enjoy features like the innovative SkyRide and the IMAX Theater which was first introduced on Carnival Vista. A new Dr. Seuss WaterWorks will also be introduced on the ship, the first at sea.
We also posted about the much anticipated ship in March when the shipyard and Carnival celebrated the traditional coin ceremony. It is a nice way to see how far the construction has come along since then. Carnival Horizon will be 133,500 gross tons and be able to carry 3,934 passengers.
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Моше Папа (ивр.משה פפא, род. 1952, Иерусалим, Израиль) — израильский хирург-маммолог, разработчик новых хирургических и аппаратных технологий в онкологической хирургии и маммологии. Профессор Папа является экспертом Национального института здравоохранения США (NIH), руководителем Израильской программы специализации хирургов-маммологов, членом редакционной коллегии самого рейтингового журнала в онкологической хирургии Surgical Oncology, членом экспертной и этической комиссии минздрава Израиля, секретарем ассоциации генетических технологий в онкологии. Профессор Папа является ведущим маммологом «Манор Медикал Центра».

Биография
Медицинское образование получил на медицинском факультете им. Саклера Тель-Авивского университета. После окончания специализировался в области хирургии в медицинском комплексе «Маунт-Синай», Нью-Йорк США. Прошел интернатуру в Национальном институте здравоохранения США (NIH), а затем специализировался в области хирургии в университете Торонто.

С 1991 года по 2012 год работал в отделении хирургии медицинского центра им. Хаима Шиба (Тель-ха-Шомер), с 2002 года был главой отделения хирургии. С 2012 года профессор Папа заведует отделением маммологической хирургии ведущей израильской больницы «Ассута».

Ведет исследования механизмов развития и лечения онкологических процессов, в частности процессов развития рака молочной железы. Изучает влияние регионарной инфузионной химиотерапии при лечении рака груди, а также генетические изменения, вызываемые данным видом рака. Разрабатывает новые технологии и комбинированные методы лечения рака молочной железы.

 Эксперт Национального института здравоохранения США (NIH)
 Руководитель Израильской программы специализации хирургов-маммологов
 Член редакционной коллегии самого рейтингового журнала в онкологической хирургии Surgical Oncology
 Член Экспертной и этической комиссии минздрава Израиля
 Секретарь ассоциации генетических технологий в онкологии

Публикации
Статьи Моше Папы (как правило, в соавторстве с другими исследователями) выходили в ведущих профильных периодических изданиях: Archives of Surgery (1985, 2003), Annals of Surgery (1986), Cancer Research (1986, 1988), Journal of Clinical Oncology (1987, 2005, 2008, 2013), Annals of Surgical Oncology (2003, 2005, 2007), European Journal of Cancer (2006), Surgical Endoscopy (2009, 2010, 2011). Общее число его публикаций в англоязычных медицинских изданиях в базе данных PubMed превышает 100.

Обвинения
В 2012 году против Моше Папы были выдвинуты обвинения в том, что в период с 2008 по 2012 годы, по крайней мере в 49 случаях Папа работал в коммерческих клиниках или вообще находился за пределами границ Израиля в то время, в которое он обязан был работать в государственной больнице. Кроме того, он приказывал своему секретарю подделывать сведения в электронном журнале учёта рабочего времени. Отвечая на обвинения, Папа заявлял, что всё это является широко распространённой среди врачей практикой.

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Ссылки
 moshepapa.co.il — личная страничка профессора Папа на иврите.
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  — биография профессора Папа на русском языке.

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Poetic observations. Isolated verses, yet constructed like a haiku. Gestures inscribed on paper. Through graphic short narratives and scenes, the series 'Entre Pausas (Between Pauses)' opens a crease in the world – that same crease in which the art of Anna Maria Maiolino has pulsated ever since.
Anna is also a letter, or rather, she is that which constitutes every letter, but always persists beyond herself: a line. The line that is produced in some corporal gestures, and is consolidated when cutting out and rebuilding the world, turning into a hyphen, a trace. Launching and twisting itself into our lives, intermittently (between pauses) and always moving. The artist's alphabet is not composed, therefore, of discrete and arbitrary signs that are combined into words and phrases of a language in order to build a shared meaning. The arrangement of lines that it produces refuses to be held back and paralyzed as a sign, nor will it bend to the traits of a single language. Nomad and foreign, like Anna herself, it merges between and mixes languages – Calabrian dialect, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish – sounds and matter.
Carrying through the idea of the letter-line, I like to think of the drawing in 'Entre Pausas' as ideograms with no fixed meaning. Like in certain haiku, they shift and transform, between figure and word, becoming at once both poem and drawing. Some explicitly outline the idea of transformation: a flower loses its petals until becoming a dot and a horizontal line; a caterpillar morphs into a butterfly, freeing itself into flight after kissing a flower. A woman is wrapped in a bandage, like a mummy or perhaps one of the faceless statues that in other drawings appear like an inert monument (but that might be hiding a body, a person, as the footprints on the ground suggest in one of them). A man, sitting comfortably on an armchair, holds the end of the bandage. Maybe he is making her spin, and she is becoming body and line – initially united, then gradually separating from each other as they draw (themselves) in space.
One day Anna told me a poetic daydream that she had had many years ago: a line would emerge from her belly button to join the line of the horizon. Since reading this remark, every scribbled mark, line and tear the artist makes has acquired another depth in my eyes. Since then I have seen her art work like a connection between what is most intimate to each of us (our belly buttons) and what is common to us all, like the horizon – which we see together and share, despite being immaterial and moving, recreating itself each moment, depending on our own position on the Earth's surface.
'Entre Pausas' (Between Pauses) is a new artist book that publishes 74 drawings from Maiolino's eponymous series for the first time. Also featured are a number of photographs from Maiolino's personal archive, as well as two poems and an account of her time in New York written by the artist, along with contributions by Brazilian psychoanalyst Tania Rivera and Randy Kennedy.
A selection of Maiolino's 'Entre Pausas' drawings are on view as part of 'ERRÂNCIA POÉTICA (POETIC WANDERINGS)', on view at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street through 22 December 2018.


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module InsiderHelper
  # ---------------------------------BUSINESS INSIDER NEWS
  INSIDER_NEWS = "http://mobile.businessinsider.com/clusterstock"

  # gets business insider news in array with format of title, link, pic and credits
  def get_insider_news
    data = []
    doc = get_url_data(INSIDER_NEWS)
    data << format_news(doc)
    data = data.first.each.reject { |e| e.empty? }

    return data
  end

  private

    # ----------------------------BUSINESS INSIDER NEWS HELPER

    # create a nokogiri object without any empty objects
    def get_url_data(url)
      Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
    end

    # get headline article
    def format_news(doc)
      result = []
      tmp = []
      tmp << doc.at_css("div.hero div.hero__byline h1").text.gsub("\n", "").gsub("\t", "").strip   # remove esc, tab and white spaces
      tmp << doc.at_css("div.hero div.hero__byline h1 a").attributes["href"].value                 # get url link
      tmp << doc.at_css("div.hero div.hero__image-wrapper a img").attributes["src"].value          # get image link
      result << tmp

      result = format_subnews(doc, result)

      return result
    end

    # get all subarticles
    def format_subnews(doc, result)
      doc = doc.at_css("ul#clusterstock").children

      tmp = []

      doc.each_with_index do |e, i|

        if i.odd? && i != 0 && i != 5 && i != 23                                           # get index and check if odd
          if e.at_css("div.river-post__byline h2")
            tmp << e.at_css("div.river-post__byline h2").text.strip
          end

          if e.at_css("div.river-post__image-wrapper a")
            tmp << e.at_css("div.river-post__image-wrapper a").attributes["href"].value
          end

          if e.at_css("div.river-post__image-wrapper a img")
            tmp << e.at_css("div.river-post__image-wrapper a img").attributes["src"].value
          end

          result << tmp                                                                     # transfer
          tmp = []                                                                          # reset
        end

      end

      return result
    end

end

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But thinking is HARD, Shannon! I like Heinlein's comment about the character whose process of 'thinking about it' meant 'coming up with a justification for what he already thought'.. And then there's the quote about "what most people call 'thinking' is really just rearranging their biases'. Which actually doesn't mean anything, but sounds appropriately snide.
Hmmm…that sounded a bit rude, upon reflection. Let's try that again.
Most people (including me) don't think, they react. It's a survival trait. You learn to parameterize, to classify, to do a quick analysis, and then you react. It's how you handle the multiple vicissitudes of life. To actually stop and think takes a lot of effort, and for most of us, that's effort without reward, because they don't get any benefit from it. No enhanced view of the world, no useful information. Heinlein disagreed. He was big on personal introspection and analysis. He felt that people who don't totally operate in the cerebral plane are proles, people without worth, but that's not the case. Most people are doing well to get through life, handling problems and making plans, at the micro level. They have neither the time nor the desire to think of the great concepts, the overarching goals. When someone who does like to operate at that level — or likes to pretend that they do — comes along, like Heinlein, they sometimes mock the others. They say that they're 'justifying their prejudices', or 'rearranging their biases'. They speak snidely of them (which is what I meant by 'appropriately snide'). Is it fair? No. But it makes them happy. It's the inverse of the old joke about wrestling with the pig.
I don't like that approach.
Then again, my favorite philosopher always was Robert Fulhgum.
I didn't think your first comment was rude, no worries.
I think you make a good point. Like I said at some point there isn't enough time to think deeply about everything. We'd never get things done. This world has become increasingly complicated and diverse and to think deeply about it all is not feasible.
That is why I think critical thinking skills are important. The better you get at it the better your immediate first reaction will be.
I think it is because I have some friends who have some radically different world views that sometimes I just want to understand why they think what they do think and understand why it is I think what I think.
Most of the silly thing our brains do is human nature. It worked to get us where we are for many a millenia (yay pattern-recognition). The modern world has thrown our brain a curveball and there are many things our brains do that often get us into trouble when thinking in modern times.
I think ultimately this comes to not want to judge. Not in the sense that everyone has a right answer and happy warm feelings (definitely not that) but that to take time to try and understand why someone might think a certain way might not only change my views but if I understand what they are thinking I might be able to help them too. Hope that wasn't too rambling.
Ah, I see. This is excellent.


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Donna giving McAllen $10K for migrants
DONNA — In a gesture that came as a surprise to McAllen city leaders, the Donna City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday evening to give McAllen $10,000 as it continues to deal with an influx of migrants and asylum seekers.
The idea came about after Donna Mayor Rick Morales, along with other Rio Grande Valley mayors, recently attended a meeting with Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Kevin A. McAleenan to discuss what federal officials have dubbed a "humanitarian and security crisis" of asylum-seeking migrants entering the country.
A large number of the migrants wind up in McAllen — dropped off at a local bus station by immigration authorities, and then later, in the care of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.
"(We) were talking about how the city of McAllen has been putting up all the money for everything and so I thought it would be good if worked together," Morales said after a special commission meeting in Donna Tuesday.
McAllen has devoted hundreds of thousands of dollars to migrant relief efforts and in assisting Catholic Charities, whose migrant respite center has had to change locations several times since it first began aiding migrants in 2014. Recently, city leaders have urged authorities to drop off migrants in other Valley cities, such as Harlingen and Brownsville, to help mitigate the burden which has largely been borne by McAllen alone.
For Morales, McAllen's plight is not their issue to shoulder alone. The Donna mayor spoke of the issue as a regional one.
"They've been overrun with a lot of illegal immigrants coming over and so city of Donna, showing solidarity with the region and our city of McAllen, we're going to be helping them out," Morales said.
"Even though it's a drop in the bucket — it's $10,000 that we're going to be helping them out with, but, I think it shows unity in this community that when one hurts, we all hurt. Mayor Darling is a great guy and I just want to let him know that he's not alone in this," he added a moment later.
Reached by phone Tuesday evening, McAllen Mayor Jim Darling was unaware of the act of solidarity his fellow mayor had initiated just over a dozen miles down the expressway.
"That's fantastic!" Darling said. "It's kind of a Valley situation so I appreciate their assistance."
District 3 McAllen Commissioner Omar Quintanilla was equally surprised by Donna's decision to give McAllen $10,000 for migrant relief efforts, but expressed gratitude for their help.
"For the city of Donna to step up, I think it's a great effort and a great first start from one of our neighbors there to contribute to the relief efforts," Quintanilla said.
Though the news came as a surprise to McAllen city leaders, one commissioner had a front row seat to Donna's act of generosity.
District 1 McAllen Commissioner Javier Villalobos, who also serves as Donna city attorney, was on hand to watch as the Donna city commission committed to helping their neighbor.
"Once Donna did that, it's amazing," Villalobos said. "They (Donna) took the reins and said, you know what, it's something that's important and they were going to help," he said.
Villalobos added he hopes other municipalities will be spurred to offer similar help, echoing Mayor Darling's sentiment that providing migrant relief is a regional issue.
"It has nothing to do with sanctuary cities. It has nothing to do with whether we want immigrants coming or not. It has to do with public safety and taking care of our citizens," Villalobos said of the city of McAllen's efforts to aid asylum seekers thus far.
"But when they (federal government) put a concern or problem on our lap, we gotta act and protect our citizens. And that's what we have been doing and that's what I hope the rest of the cities start helping with," he said.
His fellow McAllen city commissioner agreed.
"I'd agree with Villalobos — this is a regional concern, a regional problem and I think the cities in Hidalgo and Cameron County would work best if every city contributed," Commissioner Quintanilla said.
Donna hopes the city of McAllen will use the funds to promote public safety. It's a condition spelled out in the resolution the commission passed Tuesday evening.
"The City of Donna is in support of the City of McAllen's efforts and makes a finding that assisting in the above efforts is a legitimate public purpose, specifically, promoting public safety," the resolution reads.
Donna leaders hope to disburse the funds as soon as Friday.
McAllen City Attorney Kevin Pagan said he expects the city to accept the funds in due course. "I'm sure we will gratefully accept it," Pagan said.
"We'll probably do some sort of resolution of acceptance through what's called a memorandum of understanding," the city attorney explained.
"I know $10,000 is not a lot of money — it's a lot for us, but we need to show unity on this," the Donna mayor said.
For McAllen's mayor, the magnitude of the gesture was not lost on him.
"It feels good. It feels good. That's what we're all talking about," Mayor Darling said. "It's one region and I feel good that they've done it and we appreciate it — it's tax dollars from their city and we appreciate their citizens," he said.


In a letter to shareholders after his tweet on Tuesday, Musk fleshed out his idea, suggesting they would get the option to sell their shares for $420 United States each or remain investors in a private Tesla, out of the glare of Wall Street and its need for quarterly results.
Musk later clarified in a blog post that "a final decision has not yet been made", while touting the benefits of running a private company away from the "enormous pressure" of Wall Street's quarterly earnings cycle.
Tesla directors have said they knew about Elon Musk's surprise proposal to privatise the money-losing vehicle maker before he tweeted about it and have met several times in the past week to discuss the proposal.
Tesla's board on earlier on Wednesday said it was evaluating taking the company private, which would be the biggest leveraged buyout of all time.
The news comes one day after Musk said he was considering taking Tesla private.
"Last week, Elon opened a discussion with the board about taking the company private".
Musk also wants Tesla's employees to remain shareholders. He now owns 20 percent of the company, so more than $60 billion is needed to buy the business from public shareholders. Musk's money-losing and cash-burning company is an unlikely candidate for debt investors to be willing to help go private.
Elon Musk's tweets early on Tuesday caused plenty of speculation and controversy.
An acquisition of Palo Alto, California-based Tesla by overseas investors would likely trigger a national-security review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. The panel, which has stepped up its scrutiny and blocked some deals lately, could impose conditions, including limits on control of the company and information sharing.
"I'm trying to accomplish an outcome where Tesla can operate at its best, free from as much distraction and short-term thinking as possible, and where there is as little change for all of our investors, including all of our employees, as possible".
Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, speaks at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2017. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, a major backer of the Vision Fund, has built a $2 billion stake in Tesla already. The move is estimated to require north of $50 billion to buy out the public shareholders.
Tesla's stock has swung wildly in the past several years, hit by the company's production issues as well as Musk's own explosive remarks on Twitter that have turned off investors.
But the board offered no further details of the proposal or its funding, sparking new questions about the feasibility of the master gambit Musk revealed in a surprise series of midday tweets on Tuesday.
At the start of the siege, everyone, including lawmakers, was prevented from entering the National Assembly. After the lawmakers were allowed in, other officials and the media remained barred from the premises.
Becca asks if she can walk him out, mostly because he would probably walk directly into the ocean if he didn't have a chaperone. However, toward the end of the season, Tia admitted to Becca that she still felt she could have a future with Colton.
The wildfires have burned through 283,800 acres (114,850 hectares) - an area almost the size of the sprawling city of Los Angeles. While containment grew to 47 percent, burned acreage grew over the weekend, as well, now sitting at 164,413 acres burned.
She said Gates told her in a conference call the income level "was too high" and proposed reclassifying a portion of it as a loan. Mueller's team said the witnesses refused to testify or would refuse to answer certain questions if not given the protection.
There could be a sentiment among allies that, "Finally the Trudeau government is getting poked back in the eye by the Saudis". The image, which showed an Air Canada plane aimed at Toronto's skyline, attracted criticism soon after it was posted.
One of the main things I was asked about after the game was: 'Can he really play as the No. 6?' And, of course, his comments in the World Cup were always going to be brought up.
But word Facebook is fishing for financial information comes amid concerns it has not vigilantly guarded private information. Reports now claim the platform wants to gain access to its users" financial information to "boost engagement.' .
The two fires cover an area larger than the wildfire that damaged parts of Redding, California last week and continues to grow. Hundreds of colleagues, family and friends attended a memorial service Saturday in Fresno for National Forest Service Capt.
A brilliant orator who knew how to win public trust, he was also a novel writer, lyric writer, script and dialogue writer. The movie did not just have an vast impact on Tamil cinema, but also enormously influenced Tamil Nadu's political scene.
A U.S. official said Monday that "nearly 100 worldwide firms have announced their intent to leave the Iranian market". She made the announcement on the same day renewed US trade sanctions against the Islamic Republic restarted .
The Ohio rally was Trump's third of the week and he has pledged to accelerate his pace further as the midterms approach. Trump also brought to the stage OH congressman Jim Jordan, calling him "a tough cookie".


The Flesch Reading Ease formula will output a number from 0 to - a higher score indicates easier reading. Then she asked them to look in the mirrors again, reflect on their images, and write.
Download Guide Chapter Read More. Download your free trial! But she believes that because she was less quick to judge their work, students were better able to evaluate their efforts themselves.
Who should choose the Up the Ladder units? Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented. Writers write to put meaning onto the page. Within these genres, there are two types of prompts that students can address. A new baby in a family, a lost tooth, and the death of one student's father were the playful or serious inspirations for student writing.
Click to enlarge Note how none of these guys wrote above a ninth-grade level. Research to Build and Present Knowledge W. Low literacy is a problem that knows no age, education, economic boundaries, or national origins. It started out kinda slow, but you could tell there was something exciting coming up.
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She received her education specialist degree from Indiana University in Bloomington. Develop a paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. Paper and online modalities to meet the needs of all schools. In fact, in spite of continuing cuts in school budgets, reading scores have continued to rise, even in inner-city schools.
The students then used these words to create phrases and used the phrases to produce the poem itself. Debbie Rotkow, a co-director of the Coastal Georgia Writing Projectmakes use of the real-life circumstances of her first grade students to help them compose writing that, in Frank Smith's words, is "natural and purposeful.
For each letter of the alphabet, the students find an appropriately descriptive word for themselves. For example, if the ARI outputs the number 3, it means students in 3rd grade ages yrs. Work with words relevant to students' lives to help them build vocabulary. Seventy percent of prisoners are in the two lowest levels.
Gladwell and Hemingway are different beasts. We limit the sample size to words. But data shows the opposite: Paragraph Coherence - Practice creating paragraphs that treat one main topic in a common-sense order [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.
The easiest way to support investment in writing is to teach children to choose their own topics most of the time. Anna Collins Trest, director of the South Mississippi Writing Projectfinds she can lead upper elementary school students to better understand the concept of "reflection" if she anchors the discussion in the concrete and helps students establish categories for their reflective responses.
I did an informal poll of some friends while writing this post. In the process, they make extensive use of the dictionary and thesaurus.
All you need to do is to use Microsoft Word.Teaching writing to fifth graders doesn't have to be intimidating.
This post details exactly how I teach writing in 5th grade. When you need an example written by a student, check out our vast collection of free student models. Scroll through the list, or search for a mode of writing such as "explanatory" or "persuasive.
These 5th grade opinion writing prompts will get your kids thinking about new issues they may have never considered before! Home» Writing by Grade Level» Opinion Writing Ideas for Grade 5 Students.
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Sincerely, TeacherVision This colorful printable makes the basic format of a typical letter easy for students to understand and visualize! Fourth-grade students performing at the Basic level should be able to locate relevant information, make simple inferences, and use their understanding of the text to identify details that support a given interpretation or conclusion.
Students should be able to interpret the meaning of a word as it. 5 Arizona's English Language Arts Standards – 5th Grade Writing Standards Text Types and Purposes 5.W.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of .


Despite improving news on the U.S. job market, mortgage interest rates moved higher for the fourth straight week as home buyers became increasingly reluctant to make a move, according to Freddie Mac. The improvement in job gains is having little impact on the housing market.
The rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose to an average of 4.91% with 0.6 point up from 4.87% a week ago. Interest rates have been moving higher ever since turmoil increased in the Middle East and concerns about the greater world economy reached a breaking point after the disasters in Japan.
High unemployment continues to hinder the U.S. economy from improving, despite a drop in the official Bureau of Labor Statistics national average to 8.8%. Unemployment remains much higher in many regions of the country as out-sourcing over the last decade and an increase of 90-million new U.S. residents in the last 16 years hinders the nation.
Most of the U.S. economic recovery has developed on Wall Street, driving stock values higher as equities are traded by sophisticated computer algorithms by professional investors, who trade mainly for short term profits. Few housing markets troubled by the collapse of the real estate market are seeing higher home sales and only a handful are experiencing housing price inflation.
Government incentives did little to get home sales moving on a permanent basis as consumers, witnessing the further decline in home prices in most places across the U.S. became increasingly leery about the marketplace. Home values have declined more than 50% in most of the country from the markets peak.
The fixed rate 15-year mortgage averaged 4.13%, a rise from 4.10% a week ago. A year ago when the government was offering first time home buyers a tax credit to stimulate the housing market, the same loan averaged 4.40%. The higher move in mortgage rates may top the critical 5% barrier on a 30-year fixed rate loan in the near term.


The Central Aroostook Panthers held off a late charge from the No. 1 Southern Aroostook Warriors in a Thursday afternoon semifinal at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, earning a trip to the Northern Maine finals.
After leading by six going into the fourth quarter, the No. 4 Panthers opened up a double-digit lead and the final period. Although the Warriors were able to cut the lead with time running down, Central Aroostook left the court with a 54-49 win.
The Panthers will take on the No. 3 Shead Tigers on Saturday at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
Junior Kelsey Dominique led the Panthers with 14 points. Freshman Ashlee Harris had 10 points and Milly Anthony and Caitlyn Harris each added 9.
Freshman Kylie Vining scored 18 points for the Warriors. Makaelyn Porter had 10 points in the win.
For being the No. 1 seed, the Warriors, of Dyer Brook, were among the least experienced teams in the tournament with four freshman and four eighth graders. Despite their age, the team was tough in the tournament and ended their season with a 14-6 record.
Central Aroostook, of Mars Hill, improves to 14-6.


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Dating is a necessity everyone must face in order to find the right partner. Adding religion into the equation can prove difficult as a person seeks to understand his desires and those of a partner. With a little self-control and good communication, it is possible to have a healthy Christian dating relationship.
Remember the Christian values. There will be many public and private moments where a person's faith will be tested. The Christian must be able to define and live within Christian moral standards. Never forget that a person's first commitment is to God.
Communicate feelings. Be open and direct with a partner about everything from a day at work to world views. Keep feelings and thoughts out in the open. Avoid sending mixed messages.
Worship together. Although beliefs may not be shared, worshiping together will help faith grow stronger in God and each other. Attend services, bible studies, and prayer meetings together to ensure God is not put on the back burner.
Keep it friendly. Fcous your energy into developing a healthy friendship. Abstain from intimate activity as it may damage a commitment to God or relationship with a partner. Stay away from any uncomfortable situations.
Enjoy the partner. Make time for your partner. Christian values should add to the relationship instead of hindering it.
Interact with other Christian couples to add some variety into dating.
Contributor. "How to Have a Healthy Christian Dating Relationship." Dating Tips - Match.com, https://datingtips.match.com/have-healthy-christian-dating-relationship-2311045.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.